Travelers & Explorers
epub |eng | | Author:Bernard Moitessier

FIFTEEN One Night . . . The night looks wrapped in milky cotton. The full moon shines through from time to time when the fogbanks turn wispy under the stratus. ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-27 | Author:Tim Attewell & Stan Zuray [Attewell, Tim]

“Hey man, come look at this!” shouts the cook. He had been freshly transferred to The Site only one week prior, and is now looking at his first taste of ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:John A. Glusman

Nosu was known as the “Mad Butcher” of Ichioka, and his behavior struck the navy doctors as nothing short of bizarre. To cure diarrhea and dysentery he placed punks on ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-04 | Author:Noo Saro-Wiwa

That evening, I checked my e-mail at a Lebanese-run Internet café opposite the desiccated lawns of the Kano golf club. I was still dressed in my hijab and headscarf, but ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 7,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Richard Henry Dana [Dana, Richard Henry]

CHAPTER XXVII The Sunday Wash-up—On Shore—A Set-to—A Grandee—“Sail Ho!”—A Fandango The only other vessel in port was the Russian government bark, from Asitka, mounting eight guns, (four of which we ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 6,2018 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-07-14 | Author:Joshua Slocum [Slocum, Joshua]

CHAPTER XII Seventy-two days without a port—Whales and birds—A peep into the Spray’s galley—Flying-fish for breakfast—A welcome at Apia—A visit from Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson—At Vailima—Samoan hospitality—Arrested for fast riding—An ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 6,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-16 | Author:Raphael Honigstein

( Category: Soccer March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-02 | Author:Amelia Dalton [Dalton, Amelia]

Ten The Monaco weaved her way between the anchored yachts, creeping into the small harbour in the soft grey mid-summer night. It seemed still and safe after the swells of ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-01-30 | Author:Kate Harris

PART THREE I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour. ELLEN MELOY, THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF TURQUOISE 8. WILDERNESS/WASTELAND Ustyurt Plateau and Aral Sea ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Roberts [Roberts, David]

Suddenly I had a plan: “Pasquale . . . Conrad has got rafts. What do you say we hike out, fetch a raft, come back and run this thing, guerrilla ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-12 | Author:Brian Bouldrey [Bouldrey, Brian]

Buen Camino Sharman Apt Russell It feels like the screws are coming loose,” my friend April said. She and I were on the Camino de Santiago in northwestern Spain, walking ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-02-20 | Author:Junko Tabei

CHAPTER 7 Finalists May 4, 12:30 a.m. (recap) First, silence. Then a whole-body vibration, a deafening noise and – WHAM – impact. Avalanche! Before I knew it, I was tumbling ...
( Category: Travelers & Explorers March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-11-28 | Author:William E. Glassley

Ptarmigan INEVITABLY, TO COEXIST AMICABLY with those one came with into the wild, one must bathe. While certainly bracing, bathing in the field in the Arctic is a duty, not ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-02-20 | Author:Daniel Stone

* * * — The letters kept arriving at Marian’s house, delivered early in the morning during out-of-the-way detours Fairchild took by the Bells’ house to the office. Marian would ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference March 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Samuel Hearne [Hearne, Samuel]

CHAPTER 8 January 9th, 1772 to June 29th, 1772 Transactions and Remarks from our Arrival on the South Side of the Athapuscow Lake, till our Arrival at Prince of Wales’s ...
( Category: Americas March 5,2018 )